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Studies in the Novel articles from June 1997
An international literary quarterly that publishes literary criticism and scholarship on the novel. Includes essays on well-known and lesser-known novelists of all periods and countries. Contents include essays, reviews of recent books on novels and novel
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Studies in the Novel archives from June 1997
"Improper and dangerous distinctions": female relationships and erotic domination in 'Emma.' (Jane Austen)
June 22, 1997... She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all. But I have no idea that she has yet ever seen a man she cared for. It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a proper object....
Dickens, theater, and the making of a Victorian reading public. (Charles Dickens)
June 22, 1997... Nineteenth-century English fiction has undergone a certain transformation at the hands of twentieth-century critics who have read Victorian novels in discrete critical editions and assumed them to be privatized narrative expressions of modern...
Picturing property: 'Waverley' and the common law.
June 22, 1997... In Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814), landed property functions as a register of political and cultural change. A number of critics have emphasized property's importance for Waverley. Ian Duncan, for example, persuasively argues that the...
Sheridan Le Fanu's ungovernable governesses.
June 22, 1997... The stereotypical down-trodden, ill-used Victorian governess abandons her abject demeanor and launches into the domestic fray over social and cultural authority in the work of Anglo-Irish short story writer, novelist, journalist, and editor,...
Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy.
June 22, 1997... In 1988, Michele Wallace called for "a re-evaluation of Hurston's re-evaluation."(2) In the years since, a diverse range of scholars have followed Wallace, recommending a full reassessment of writings about Hurston and of Hurston's writings:...
Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston.
June 22, 1997... In 1988, Michele Wallace called for "a re-evaluation of Hurston's re-evaluation."(2) In the years since, a diverse range of scholars have followed Wallace, recommending a full reassessment of writings about Hurston and of Hurston's writings:...
Framing Feeling: Sentiment and Style in English Prose Fiction, 1745-1800.
June 22, 1997... BENEDICT, BARBARA. 1745-1800 (New York: AMS Press, 1994). x + 261 pp. $45.00.
Few readers will confess preferring scattered classified ads to focussed headlines, but everyone knows that kaleidoscopic "personal," "garage sale," and...
Novel Possibilities: Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture.
June 22, 1997... JOSEPH W. CHILDERS. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995). x + 218 pp. $32.95.
In the last decade, with increasing intensity, literary scholars have turned their attention not merely to literary texts, but to the complex...
Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
June 22, 1997... KEVIN MCLAUGHLIN. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995). 186 pp. $35.50.
In the last decade, with increasing intensity, literary scholars have turned their attention not merely to literary texts, but to the complex culture out of...
Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels.
June 22, 1997... NICOLE DIANA THOMPSON. (New York: New York University Press, 1996). 164 pp. Cloth $40.00; paper $17.50.
In the last decade, with increasing intensity, literary scholars have turned their attention not merely to literary texts, but to the...
Persona and Humor in Mark Twain's Early Writings.
June 22, 1997... FLORENCE, DON. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995). 166 pp. $34.95.
In Persona and Humor in Mark Twain's Early Writings, Don Florence provides interesting perspectives of ways Samuel Clemens develops the literary persona Mark...
Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole.
June 22, 1997... GREGG, VERONICA MARIE. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995). 240 pp. $39.95 cloth; $17.95 paper.
Since their "resurrection" from literary obscurity in 1966, Jean Rhys's novels and stories have been approached from a...
The Writings of William Carlos Williams: Publicity for the Self.
June 22, 1997... MORRIS, DANIEL. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995). 218 pp. $34.95 (cloth).
Modernism is both so much simpler and so much more complicated than we had ever imagined. Though intrigued by the structural possibilities of myth, we...
Constructions of Smollett: A Study of Genre and Gender.
June 22, 1997... SKINNER, JOHN (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996). 267 pp. $39.50.
Early in his introduction, John Skinner writes "that something should be done about Smollett; for he risks becoming the first major English novelist to have passed...
Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times.
June 22, 1997... STOUT, JANIS P. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995). 381 pp. $34.95.
According to my student Shannon Gasperecz, who's done voluminous research on Katherine Anne Porter's stay in Baton Rouge in the 1930s, Porter and her...
Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe.
June 22, 1997... WATT, IAN. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996). 293 pp. $27.95.
In 1951, Ian Watt published "Robinson Crusoe as a Myth": he began, "Defoe's first full-length work of fiction seems to fall... into place with Faust, Don Juan and Don...
Decadence and the Making of Modernism.
June 22, 1997... WEIR, DAVID. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995). 232 pp. $50.00 cloth; $17.95 paper.
As our century draws to a close, we are seeing the inevitable flurry of publications on issues of decadence and fin-de-siele. The last end...